Facebook showing incorrect thumbnail when shared posts

  • vanityleaguemag

    (@vanityleaguemag)


    11 years ago

    Hi! This situation is absolutely pulling my hair out.

    We use Yoast SEO for our website, and Open Graph Meta Data is selected for Facebook.
    Recently, when we share many of our links on Facebook, the wrong Featured Image comes up. I have tried using Debugger tools, switching to different OG plugins and more but nothing seems to work. All of our featured images are larger than 200×200.

    It also seems that for posts with just the featured image, the website logo or a completely different photo will be shown, and for posts with more than one image, the largest image will be selected. There’s nothing wrong with the featured images because we also use Social Network Auto Poster with “Attach Big Image” or what ever it’s called and the featured image is posted as a photo with no hassle.

    What can I possibly do to fix this issue? I would appreciate any support!

    Thanks

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  • Lalit Nagrath

    (@laliz)

    11 years ago

    in Debugger tool it should show your Intended image(s) under og:image. those will be shown to user as option. otherwise Facebook picks random images and display them.

    so make sure your image appears under og:image and edit option in Yoast SEO plugin

    Thread Starter vanityleaguemag

    (@vanityleaguemag)

    11 years ago

    For this link, http://bit.ly/1ITO4Hb it shows under the OG:Image but it won’t show it in the share. What should I edit in the plugin?

    Lalit Nagrath

    (@laliz)

    11 years ago

    og:image was not defined, could not be downloaded or was not big enough. Please define a chosen image using the og:image metatag, and use an image that’s at least 200x200px and is accessible from Facebook. Image ‘http://vanityleague.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/indyjones.jpg-bradley-cooper-reboot-harrison-ford-not-impressed-250×140.jpg’ will be used instead.

    Thread Starter vanityleaguemag

    (@vanityleaguemag)

    11 years ago

    The photo is larger than 200×200. All of our images are. 🙁

    Thread Starter vanityleaguemag

    (@vanityleaguemag)

    11 years ago

    I think I have found the issue. I think this has started ever since we updated to WordPress 4.2.2. Could that be the case?

    Thread Starter vanityleaguemag

    (@vanityleaguemag)

    11 years ago

    ISSUE HAS BEEN FOUND! For anyone that is also experiencing this issue, the easiest fix is: When you are doing your SEO stuff, click the Social tab and click “Upload Image.” Select your featured image again and it should be fixed. You only need to do this for posts published after the update hopefully.

    Hope that helps.

    edodere

    (@edodere)

    11 years ago

    Thank you!

    I was having the same problem and you solved it!

    Using Seo Yoast you have to click “Upload Image” for a second time and then check again your link in Facebook debug.

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